Sununu: GOP lost NH Senate seat by being too partisan

As for why his party was far less successful than anyone had anticipated, Sununu was candid. “People just didn’t have any faith that the Republicans running for the federal seats were going to be the ones to fix the policies like inflation concerns that were important to them because of some extremism and some partisanship,” he said. “To the Democrats’ credit, they did a good job pre-defining our candidates very early on while they were still in primaries as crazy or extreme. And when you get pre-defined like that, before you even get a chance to truly introduce yourself to the more mainstream independent voters, you’re now coming from a defensive position as opposed to, ‘Here I am, and this is what I’m about.’” …

Sununu said he believes it is time for new leadership in the party, beginning at the Republican National Committee. “Did they achieve on the level of results that we all thought we were going to get?” he asked. “No. So, why would we stick with the same team assuming we’re going to get a better result?”

Which led to Sununu’s blunt assessment of his party and issues he said that need to be addressed, including Trump’s decision to start teasing that he was going to run for president just before Election Day, when many voters were trying to assess whether to take a gamble on some of the people he hand-picked to run.

“The first question I have is, what moronic political consultants said, ‘Yeah, we’re only a few days away from the general election, let’s bring Trump in’?” he said. “Well, what are you possibly going to gain by that? There’s nothing to be had; you’re going after independent undecided voters. Those people have nothing to do with Trump, unless there was some bizarre poll that told me that there’s a lot of Trump voters sitting on the sidelines, but that was not the case.”